Critical Incident Monday, June 23, 2025

Undersheriff Mark Canty briefs the media on a deputy involved shooting.

On June 23, 2025, at approximately 12:45 p.m., OCSO received a call from a woman who said her boyfriend had been smoking drugs and held her against her will with a knife all night.

Deputies responded to the scene at the Isles at East Millenia Apartments on Lake Fountain Drive and spoke with the woman, who confirmed her boyfriend had threatened her with a knife.

Over the course of the next hour or so, deputies tried to communicate with the 57-year-old man, who was barricaded inside an apartment. The victim, his girlfriend, was out of the apartment and not in danger.

After trying to talk with the man for several hours, at one point, he came out of a room and moved toward the deputies with a knife, and two deputies fired their service weapons, striking the man. Paramedics, who were already staging at the scene, transported the man to the hospital, where he later died.

As is our standard procedure, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting and will turn over its findings to the State Attorney’s Office for review. Once that process is completed, OCSO will conduct its own internal investigation. The deputies who fired their service weapons are on temporary, paid administrative leave pending the initial FDLE